FILM SUBMISSIONS: Straight-Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival 2016 is now open for Feature Film submissions and Music Videos. It's FREE to submit till March 1st.
To submit your work for the 2016 Festival's consideration, simply email us a YouTube link to your Feature film (must be over 40min in length) or to your Music Video (must be from a real band).
Please also include your production info, bio, website and film synopsis to:
Down & Dirty Pictures - Peter Biskind Go Ask Alice - Anonymous A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Childhoods End - Arthur C. Clarke The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Grahame Beyond Good and Evil - Freidrich Nietzsche Lilith - J. R. Salamanca Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi Easy Riders, Raging Bulls - Peter Biskind The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley Cries Unheard - Gitta Sereny One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey The Adventures Of Roberto Rossellini - Tag Gallagher The Dead Zone - Stephen King Crowds and Power - Elias Canetti Edie: American Girl - Jean Stein Pimp - Iceberg Slim The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Atrocity Exhibition - J. G. Ballard Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey Animal Farm - George Orwell Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker - James Gavin Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby, Jr. The Doctrine of Fascism - Benito Mussolini On the Road - Jack Kerouac The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho The Cult of Violence - John Pearson The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith Brighton Rock - Graham Greene Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice In Cold Blood - Truman Capote Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh 12 Days on the Road: The Sex Pistols - Noel E. Monk Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille Say You Love Satan - David St. Clair Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger Wiseguy - Nicholas Pileggi
The Godfather of the Exploding Cinema collective, plus in addition to
making films such as Maldoror and curating screenings and events, he wrote the mind-blowing
history of British underground filmmaking called Subversion:
The Definitive History of Underground Cinema that is mandatory reading
for any underground film nut. A true hands on maverick.
Craig Roberts
Compelling
character actor who has now turned his hand at directing and fits the
mold of being the perfect Trojan Horse to enter the
mainstream film industry and shake it up from the inside. His debut
feature
film Just Jim is a darkly funny coming of age story shot on a low budget in Wales.
Roberts is a self taught filmmaker and a strong advocate for supporting Welsh
cinema.
Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais
Defining the
ideology that two heads are better than one, this power team are the
founders of The London Underground Film Festival and Film Panic
magazine. Experimenters of the independent film vanguard with some of
the trippiest films to come out in recent memory such as their mind
bending feature debut Savage Witches.
Fabrizio Federico
Crashing together
the poetic and the strange; whether its making micro budget features
about alienation, sex and death cult philosophies in debut Black Biscuit or counting down to generational Armageddon in the form of technology and social media addiction with new film Pregnant. He is the founder of the Pink8 Manifesto which encourages new filmmakers to basically "Turn on, tune in, and drop out" . Get in touch with their inner improvised shamanand lose your mind.
Tony Burke
The
filmmaker you love to hate. His thought provoking works have caused
scandal and bewilderment, hence an artist in the truest sense of the
word. Mixing together loneliness, beauty and desire. A body of work that
captures the everyday absurdity of where bizarre circumstances can lead
you. His skillful portrayals on the poignancy of life can be
experienced in his latest films The Fox and Him.
Scotland's
mean streets are kicked in the balls by the presence of Mr Mackenzie's
camera. Hip Hop and Cinema come crashing down the rabbit hole as the
dystopian odyssey of Dimention Zero captures the wilderness of an
hallucination called life. Beautifully shot on anything that he could
get his hands on, depicting the crash city youth of hoodies, police and
music. Its final message sublimely true; We are all art, as soon as we
embrace ourselves.
Ben Charles Edwards
Whether
its Fantasy, B Movies, Avant Garde or Dark Comedy there's no genre that
this filmmaker cant master with Zen like ease. Embracing stylistic
glamour with the unpredictability of Underground Cinema. His debut
feature film Set The Thames on Fire displays an impressive
claustrophobic disjointed atmosphere and at the center of all this a
fearless ring leader weaves his directorial magic.
''If a tree falls in the forest but no one’s there to Instagram it, did it happen at all?'' PREGNANT [official website]: http://pregnantmovie.moonfruit.com/
The beauty of Underground Cinema is that it is driven by unpolitical and immediate needs and slides like a shooting star into dream worlds with no social boundaries. Savage Witches (co-directed by Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais) looks for the truth that comes with being a seeker.
The film proves what an unstoppable and uncompromising creative force the Fawcett & Pais team legitimately is. They are truly a transatlantic collective. Organizers of the The London & Porto Underground Film Festival's, editors of the influential One+One Filmmakers Journal and co-directors CINE-REBIS. They are on fire. Savage Witches tells the tale of Gretchen and Margarit, two misunderstood psychedelic school girls who would like to be able to play and float on a river forever and ever instead of working and adhering to their tyrannic school principals rules. They dress up and play fight, spit on what society thinks about their other worldliness, both looking like wild rabid carnival characters. Its cinematography is a kaleidoscope of HD, DV, Super8 and their favorite format VHS! The film perfectly reflects what a prison society can often be like to a fertile young independent creative mind. How curiosity, imagination and craziness can often be put on trial. Movie's such as Savage Witches follow a tradition similar to other maverick filmmakers like Věra Chytilová and Derek Jarman who tackled the teenage psyche in all it's anarchic glory. Casting spells on all who watch these films, especially those in search of the magic that will set them free. Purified by the rain, following the arrows, slogans such as ''Let's destroy the World'' flash across the skies, erasing humankind and all its dead ideas and forgotten history. Tempting you to fly with them ** gimme your hands cause you're wonderful!!
Darkness + Silence The duo are currently filming back to back projects The Kingdom of Shadows and Black Sun. ''Making a movie is an amazing thing, it’s magic! We never suffer from writer’s block or a lack of ideas, we are interested in so many things and there never seems to be enough time to do them all''.
Savage Witches is a film that wants to burst out of the screen and cross over into life, to have the vision and experience of the world enriched and transformedby the artifice of cinema. But when is too much freewill considered dangerous? When does freedom become manipulated and sold to the masses? Respectively a film like Savage Witches will never have that problem. History is dead, long live infinity. For more info Visit:http://theundergroundfilmstudio.co.uk/
